        Nuttmann, John : AssignmentsJack NuttmannNovember 24, 2007 The 5th Street Story Fifth Street is the link between the campus and the city, a necessary bridge that would otherwise leave the two unfamiliar and severely diminish the interaction of the student body and Midtown Atlanta. One question I asked myself when I started the research on this paper was, what exactly is a ‘fifth street’? 5th street was part of a bigger project known as the “5th Street Project”. The “5th Street Project” was a project conjured in 2000 by Georgia Tech President Wayne Clough, Atlanta Mayor Bill Campbell, and Midtown Alliance President Susan Mendheim; a $148 million dollar project that would connect Georgia Tech and Midtown Atlanta and ultimately benefit both by bringing business to Midtown Atlanta and also attracting top-notch students and teachers to Georgia Tech. As Campbell put it, “Our city is growing rapidly and at the center of it is Georgia Tech” (1), Tech would be an energy boost to the city. Included in the project were the blueprints for a hotel, college bookstore, the Dupree College of Management, and other related Georgia Tech buildings; it was the plan for what we now call Tech Square. In summary the “5th Street Project” was a project that would mutually aid both Georgia Tech and the city in advancement, popularity, and business. Another purpose of this project was to spread out an already congested Tech campus. It would spread Tech’s location and provide more space on campus. 5th Street was the means of making this project, of connecting Tech and Midtown Atlanta, a reality. As for the primary formal and social issues that go into building a street there are three important things a street does intentionally (or unintentionally): it is something to move traffic on, it is an exchange of goods (transportation), and it is a social scene (3). Can it support the local traffic? Does it give adequate room for pedestrians to walk and be social (aka benches)? Does it satisfy the seven filters mentioned in the prompt? The primary formal issues include the actual street. You have to make sure, like mentioned before, that is can hold the traffic of the potentials users. You must consider parking, bicyclists; will it be two ways or one way? A lot of the primary formal issues come from the surroundings and the environment. When I observed 5th Street I saw that the way it was built made it adequate for the local traffic of the area. It was two-way so people could come and go from campus to city, and it allowed for parking in an area that would need it. As for social issues, a designer must consider the people. The majority of social issues take place on the sidewalks but it can incorporate into crosswalks as well. Some social issues could be: does the sidewalk allow enough room for walking and social materials such as benches? Are there enough crosswalks for people? Will the sidewalks get crowded with other things (aka vendors, supplies, etc…)? Again this will mainly be decided based on the local population and the purpose of the street. 5th Street was meant to be heavily used by students and faculty, thus the sidewalks are relatively big and open leaving few obstructions for pedestrians but at the same time putting in benches to solve some social issues. There were several filters mentioned in the prompt that a street had to relate to in order to be a street, and I believe 5th Street satisfies each of them. The first one was public space. Of the three important things that a street does, it’s the third part of this trio that mixes in with public space. Public space can be pretty much anywhere from a sidewalk, a bench, a building off to the side of a street, or as we have at Georgia Tech a green space where people/students can go a step further and plan to socialize through a meeting or playing a sport. “5th Street was built to be pedestrian friendly,” quoting source (1). What these things do are somewhat force travelers to interact with each other; when walking down a street people will be going in opposite directions and are always ‘walking into each other’. I believe this was labeled as a filter because a street is really not a street at all if there isn’t some form of public space for humans to interact. Just looking at the images in the PowerPoint lecture on ‘What makes Cities Great’(5), I see that the sidewalks for Tech Square and 5th Street are huge allowing many benches and areas for eating to be right there and thus making it a public space to socialize at. The next filter is: a result of a prior framework or subdivision of territory. Due to time and the introduction of cars, and other transportation the Traditional American subdivisions of buildings, residential areas, parks, and streets have been forced to change. The Traditional American subdivisions focused on three important points, 1. Maximizing accessibility of pedestrians to places, 2. Focusing attention to focal points or places, and 3. Making it possible for future generations to renew how land is used efficiently (4). What changed was that the automobile could now connect people without using the Traditional American subdivisions, and modern designers put more energy into isolating residential areas to give a sense of privacy. No longer do people need maximum accessibility to other residents, so scratch point one; no longer to things need to center around focal points because you can still get there through transportation so scratch two. What modern designers have done is gone with a system that organizes park, business, and residential into a neat grid system (Establishing a National Order). What’s interesting is that it seems that although Tech Square and 5th Street are set up in this modern grid system, I feel that it also follows the Traditional American subdivision. I mean 5th Street allows maximum accessibility to Tech square without the necessity of a car; 5th Street and the intersection of Spring Street Northwest become the focal point of the Midtown Atlanta development; that’s two relationships to the Traditional American subdivisions. These two relationships to previous subdivisions are necessary for a college area. If 5th Street was not designed in this way then it would be much harder for students to access Tech Square (due to not owning a car if a freshman) and 5th Street remains a focal point which everything develops around so people don’t have to wonder far. 5th Street is a palimpsest of previous development in the area. This filter takes me back to the new modern way of subdivision. To show previous conditions is to show how 5th Street relates to the old layout of the land. Besides the beautification of the bridge portion of 5th Street, and the addition of multiple Georgia Tech buildings the layout of the area is very similar to that of what it was previously in the sense that the street location is in the exact same position. What it doesn’t show is the previous public space; it has changed so much that the old public space cannot be seen in 5th Streets current state. I guess to some extent, as I have just talked about, a street can show what its previous conditions where but at the same time it can also show a projection of what can come. 5th Street’s current layout shows the focal point at 5th Street and Spring Street Northwest and how it has developed outward to include multiple Georgia Tech buildings, colleges, and a hotel. Considering the original reason for the development of the area without even looking at it, I already know that the area will continue to develop. Now from my observations I do not see 5th Street actual expanding, I think that the street is already completed the requirements of a street, and on top of that there is no more physically they can do to it because there is no more room to expand; the way the area is subdivided I would not think adding more lanes would be necessary.# The next filter talks about how a street needs to have dimensions and particular physical and material characteristics. When I looked at this I thought ‘oh just the street needs to be planned out for height and width’, but as I reviewed What Makes Great Cities Great(5) I looked at all the extra planning that goes into the dimensions and physical characteristics of a street. The ‘right-of-way’ (5) is the span of building to building, and it includes: side walk and public space, parking lanes, bicycle lanes, and driving lanes. It must also be taken into consideration on what space will be taken up by vendors, supplies, benches, and newspaper dispensers (7). In the ‘On city streets’ article I read that not only is public space limited by the road but you must consider what it’s going to be used for. From my observations of Tech Square and 5th Street I didn’t see any issues with the sidewalks and public space. The material characteristics of a street must be considered when building to ensure durability. Obviously a street needs to be constructed of asphalt, the sidewalks can be constructed of multiple materials the only thing that matters is that they need to be durable and that routine maintenance is done on cracks in the pavement or else it becomes a hazard to others. During my observation of 5th street I noticed the sidewalks where made of cement and where in good condition. Without good dimensions and materials a street can become poor, unpopular, and hazardous. The filter talking about urban form and volume are very important when laying out a street. What this filter is trying to say is that a street, like 5th street, needs substance to it in order to bring out its life. Urban form means modern buildings and lots of them, and volume goes right along with that when I say lots of buildings. What I don’t agree with is that a street doesn’t necessarily need to be urban to be a street. In the context of 5th Street, due to its location and purpose it is a very urban street with volume. A street only needs volume if it is to have lots of public space and popularity. I mean a country street can meet the other requirements and still be a street without this filter. If you want to have a successful project like 5th Street and you want it to be popular and bring economic success it is better for it to be urban and have volume in order to attract people. The first thing that comes to mind when looking at the filter of space with multiple functions I think of the green space on the bridge, and the public spaces on the sidewalks. First the green space of 5th Street, I feel that 5th Street works with this filter because it has added to the public space and turned it into an area/space that can have multiple functions. Not only is it meant to offset the lack of green space and all the surrounding ‘un-green’ buildings but it also extends the potential of the public space. What designers need to look at is how can they take a common space for walking and make it interesting. At 5th Street the sidewalks are not only used for walking but they are also for sitting, eating, and visually enjoyably (trees and plants). This filter is important for bringing success and color to an area. For the filter social institution I feel that it is incorporated into many other filters as well. To understand this I looked at what a social institution was: it’s defined as an organization, a group, or a foundation. Now how has 5th Street used this filter? To start with 5th Street as I have described it is a very social place already with its public spaces but what make it into a social institution are the buildings surrounding it. Restaurants nail salon, multicultural shops, and Georgia Tech classrooms and businesses. A street on its own cannot become a social institution; it needs the help of the live around it to make it that. Anything you see is nothing if nobody is around to add life to it. The filter that a street is a theater activated by human performance by everyday acts as well as special events is common with everything else in life. Already knowing that this filter applied to most things I tried to narrow its application to 5th Street. If 5th Street where a theater, the play would be called Tech Square, the actors would be the students and faculty that used it, but sadly it would be the most boring play ever. Although the bookstore and the surrounding Georgia Tech buildings bring life to the ‘theater’ I would not say that everyday actions make it a better place. The social life and the performance by everyday human acts would not bring to much glamour with this theater analogy, but there is enough each day to keep it an active and enjoyable place. This is an important filter for streets. Without something to bring life to a street (say people and events) then the social institution and public space will lack as well and ultimately less maintenance will be put into fixing materials of the street and sidewalks. Then I looked at the article Jackson Domesticating the Streets (8) and I realized that people also bring their emotions, culture, issues, and violence to streets and thus add to its theatrics. Thus authorities and government officials try to limit the theater and human actions in public spaces. In conclusion, I would like to address the initial concern about 5th Street, about whether it has done what the designers had hoped it would and has the basis and projection of a future growth; I would say yes. Based on my observations I have seen it to be a well thought out area that passes through all seven filters; it is popular, has economic success, and is benefiting Midtown Atlanta which is exactly what the designers hoped for. As for the articles and lectures I read I now understand what goes into a street, how to make it successful and I believe most of what those articles where saying where also considered by the planners. I believe that 5th Street is a success story that will only continue to develop and spread Georgia Tech outward. Sources 1. (1) The 5th Street Project. http://gtalumni.org/Publications/techtopics/fall00/article2.html 2. (2) Tech Square. http://www.gatech.edu/technology-square/ 3. (3) Article: A quick history of the street. kostoff_ the street.pdf 4. (4) Article: On streets as a prior framework. allen et al_ you are how you subdivide.pdf 5. (5) Article: What Makes Great Cities Great ppt. coa 1060 07 oct 24.ppt 6. (6) Google: Google Earth. earth.google.com 7. (7) Articule: On City streets. whyte - the physical street.pdf 8. (8) Article: On malls, and the politics of public space in America. jackson domesticating the street.pdf [The other articles assigned to read that are not cited here where not quoted from but helped add to the overall writing] 10.10.07 Architecture: the discipline, the profession, and the program at Georgia Tech; these are the concepts of this lecture. The entire lecture is on the possibilities that we have as architecture students and the services that are offered at Georgia Tech. The lecture takes the architecture discipline shows us where we go from here to the next few years in a chart, show’s us where we can further define our career in design in arts, urban design and policy, etc… and then show’s us the differences of each architecture career field and what it involves. Then the presentation shortly goes into how we can expand our learning to foreign countries and new concepts like ‘green’ construction. In the presenter show’s us the potential of our fields and what to expect in the future. Green architects are something I’ve heard of before but never really understood. My understanding is a green architect is someone who designs with the consideration of saving energy, and being environmentally friendly. When I looked up the definition it was more or less of what I thought it was but it also means considering the project to be sustainable by itself and the concept is more ecologically friendly then I thought it was. Green architecture is a response to a changing society, a healthier society, a society concerned with the environment. Sustainability as a definition I understood, but as an actual concept I do not really understand. The first thing that comes to mind for me is a house that has a nuclear power plant built in and is able to make its own food and dispose of its own waste. Looking up a definition would be pointless so I considered my notes and I see that nothing is completely sustainable on its own, but what we are doing at Georgia Tech is trying to take steps to get it that way. Solar power providing energy to the house without the help of outside power is a huge step towards that goal. “We shape our buildings, and then they shape us”, - Winston Churchill. This concept I knew about but didn’t have a full understanding of yet. Each lecture tends to give me a better understanding. Our environments shape who we are, they can make us happy if they’re pretty and bright, or the can make us sad if they’re dark and dull. Each division of architecture (Urban design and policy, etc…) has to deal with this issue and the lecturer briefly explains this. One issue for all architects is how to make the living world, our environments, our buildings, and our homes better, happier, brighter, more sustainable, cheaper, and environmentally friendly. Many have to consider the new ‘green architecture’ because it’s the future of the profession. A question they have to ask themselves is how do I make the user happy, the neighborhood happy, the community happy, how to make their house or building have individualism but at the same time unity with everything else. They have to see multiple viewpoints, including the environments, and take them all into consideration to create a successful world. 10.15.07 Building Construction. One of the concepts of this lecture is that in the profession of building construction there are many tasks that go into the construction of a building then design it and put it here. On top of that you must consider the building before ‘life’, during ‘life’, and the buildings ‘death’. The profession must also deal with a wide variety of other professions to accomplish their job; architects, engineers, various agencies, and even the local community if they have an issue with it. Not really a concept but a main part of the lecture is the sub-disciplines of building construction. And what types of projects are involved in each, such as: a residential contractor can deal with anything from single family housing to condominiums of hundreds of families, and also must have ‘the vision’ that makes the stakeholders and the life cycle of a building and the possible user’s happy. 'Stake holders' was a term used to describe everyone who has a part in the idea, design, construction of, life of, and termination of a project. If anything this lecture defined this term the most and showed the real building construction. A stake holder chain starts with the owner, goes through the designers and the constructors, and ends with the management and operators of the building. All of them must work together to guarantee a successful life of a building. The concept of design department and construction department working side by side was something I didn’t really think about before. I assumed the architects designed it and the building constructors made it, a hand off process, but from the lecture I see that they do work side by side and I guess have to in order to have a successful construction. ‘The Vision’ is a definition that was given in the lecture that I had not taken into consideration and that I actually underestimated in importance before. Throughout the lecture the presenter builds up to this definition by showing us the steps, the people, the projects, and the purpose of building construction. The vision, by my understanding, is the satisfied purpose and concrete (literally) finish that includes everyone’s goals, the successfully completed project, before it is built. The definition in the lecture followed more along the lines of the actual process of the project with everyone (stakeholders: including architect, engineers, constructers, and sub-constructers, and the owner) working together along with modern technology and the life of the building during and after its use. I understand the process of ‘the vision’, the stake holders, and the cooperation but all I see in this is constant issues among communication. How can something so huge and complex, with multiple people workout smoothly and issue free? That must be a huge issue for anyone in this career. Can the process be handled by fewer people or is that too much stress on them? Does each sub-discipline have to deal with the same issue? 10.22.07 ‘ID education, ID profession, and ID future‘is what this lecture is about. The concepts and ideas in this lecture try to define the title. The concept that we can design things that, “adds value, increases usability, and simplifies life,” and that can make things easier, makes a person more efficient, convenient, effective, it can deal with environments making them more joyful and effective. The idea of industrial design is more or less problem solving of objects and things that can be made better, and making them into a reality; “design starts with a problem.” The concept present in architecture and building construction that it needs to work and preferably not harm the environment, and helps out society and the community. The industrial design process is, like every other lecture, something I didn’t know or did not fully comprehend before the actual lecture. It starts with a problem, then a definition of exactly what the problem is, researching possible solutions, pulling your research together into an idea or concept, putting your idea or concept into a design or representation of a physical form, and then creating that design into the solution of your problem. ‘User center’ is a term that takes the environment, the user, and the designed object together. Similar to ‘the vision’ in building construction, it is the combination of the mentioned three areas and how they come together, are used (how they work together), and the idea that the goals and happiness of each is satisfied. I would guess that a balanced center where each area is evenly happy is the best. Humanization of technology was a concept that just sounded weird off the bat. How to make machines, objects, materials, ‘stuff’, all very un-human/non-living/lacking blood and brain power things and make them more human??? What I have to come to understand is that this concept is referring to making things more fitting to us more comfortable so we realize less that they are there and more a part of us. In definition, industrial design is exactly like humanization of technology. My question is you can pretty much take anything in the known world and make it better. From materials, to preexisting objects, to even sometimes the environment, so where do you start? Is ID fixed on making old things better or making new, useful things from scratch? Do ID professions just come up with the design or do they also create the mechanical parts in their design? Is there a lot of communication required between engineers and ID professionals? Jack Nuttmann GI# 902424202 Adams, Glenn, Laurie O’Brien, and Jessica Nelson. 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It sounds like how usable something is, what its potentials are. The actual definition is quite similar: This is a functional study that addresses issues of HCI, information presentation and exchange, design, cognition and physical performance. Which makes a lot of sense because a lot of thinking needs to go into disability? 2. Anthropometry. Sounds like figuring out body dimensions in relation to a product. And that is exactly what it is; trying to find the best fit wheelchair or cushion that fits and works with a disabled person. 3. Optimization. The potential of a product, the best it can be in several factors that are important to the function of the product. Which is what it means, making the best of everything? That is very important in a project, making the best you can of something to make a good, reliable product that satisfies the customer and gets the job done. Part Three 1. Teaching/Learning. How does working with disability products contribute to our understaning of design of large, structural projects? 2. Disciplines. Would builing these type of devices or adjustments be set to one engineering, such as material engineering, or electrical or would it involve the use of many engineers? 3. Professions. Could say someone like an architect or builing construction be involved in this products? 4. Systems of Organization and Economic Productions. What does this have to deal with this product? 9.12 Part One 1. The broad issue Construction Industry the profession and what is involved in it. The author starts out with a description of what construction is, and then goes into basic ideas and philosophy, the history of industry, modern industry and then examples. She goes from vague to descriptive. He uses terms like economy, sales, capitalism, etc. Part Two 1. Lean construction. Looking at this concept I figured it could mean something similar to value engineering and would try to meet requirements for a project at the lowest available cost. Online I got the definition that lean construction is a way to design production systems to minimize waste of materials, time, and effort in order to generate the maximum possible amount of value. Which I see now is a very important part of construction, trying to do the job with as little as possible excess costs/issues. 2. Procurement. This term I figured meant a solution that came from a collection of ideas. Something that came out of a mix of work. My guess was similar to the actual definition: to obtain something by care and effort. Meaning a lot of thinking goes into it, which is what, must be done on projects. 3. Value engineering. So looking at the concept I get the sense it has to deal with cost effective solutions to engineering. Making a project meet requirements with as low as possible costs. When I searched it online I got , value engineering is an analysis of the functions of a program, project, system, product, item of equipment, building, facility, service, or supply of an executive agency, performed by qualified agency or contractor personnel, directed at improving performance, reliability, quality, safety, and life cycle costs. It’s not based on cost analysis but more a better value project. Part Three 1. Teaching/Learning. Can someone learn lean construction or value engineering in a classroom or is it mostly brought on by experience? 2. Disciplines. Does one field of engineering have more experience/influence in working with construction industry? 3. Professions. Is construction industry strictly engineering field or can it also include architecture and management? . 9.14 Part One 1. The broad issue is mapping out possible site locations and marking the environment in an electronic data system. A system that is able to withdraw information easy and effectively and gives the user a visual image of the environment. The author tells us what GIS and what it is used for. As the slides progress we are shown more and more examples of what the system is used for; 2D layouts, population densities, 3D mapping, etc. Automated, project, visualize, putting physical information into a visual easy to access form. Part Two 1. Impervious. Before looking up what the word Impervious meant I thought it meant something that is solid, true, not tampered with; afterwards I found out it means incapable of being influenced, persuaded, or affected. 2. Suitability. Before looking up the term I thought Suitability meant how well an environment could support or work well with someone’s goals or expectations. I found out it meant the quality of having the properties that are right for a specific purpose. 3. Enterprise Collaboration. I think it means many organizations or business working together or communicating together to get to an agreement or compromise. I found out it can mean either what I thought it was, or it can be communication between people of the same employment. Which makes sense in that GIS will put together different data which is in a sense a communication between say a land surveyor and a building designer who needs a scaled model or idea of what he’s working with. Part Three 1. Teaching/Learning. Is the GIS system used for producing any visual imagery or just for land/environment mapping? 2. Disciplines. How can GIS be effective for more than one type of discipline, how can you incorporate more than one? 3. Professions. What kind of career would involve using the GIS system, like actually producing the visuals? 4. Systems of Organization and Economic Production. How can the GIS system be more useful, can it be more effective at organizing or is it good as it is? 9.17 Part One The whole lecture is on health and architecture, obesity and physical activities, and safety. This lecture was a little confusing to follow but the author starts out with obesity in America. Showing graphs of how over time Americans are adding on body fat, how it can lead to depression, and then cancer and diabetes. She then goes on about how to prevent obesity and talks about how even something like planning a building differently can prevent obesity. She then goes on saying that building design in hospitals can not only be less scary but more effective in helping people recover from illnesses; for example lighting in a room can make people happier then artificial lighting. The concept of noise, and light, and design, and stairs are present throughout. Part Two 1. Core Value. Is one term I saw in the presentation that I realized did not have a set meaning. The term ‘core’ is sort of the inside of something or how everything comes together, the main points. What she talked about was how everything came together. Like how the room was set up, how everything should be close like the bathroom from the bed and the family room from the patients room and the other rooms in a hospital. I think that she might have been trying to summarize her points into a ‘core’ and used the diagram of a hospital to describe her thinking. 2. Environmental factors. This is an easy term to define, things in the environment that affect us, but it was a main term of the presentation. Environmental factors are not just parts of preexisting nature that effect us but if can be things we put in our building designs that work in our favor. It makes sense when she talks about light and noise, but factors of the environment that have an effect on how we feel and think. 3. Incidental, means something that happens or likely to happen in an unplanned or subordinate conjunction with something else. This concept is what should be considered more in building design. She used the example that we as humans don’t think when we walk up stairs and incidental we are getting exercise while doing it. This is what should be done more often in work places and in homes to prevent the spread of obesity which was another main point of the presentation. Part Three So what has this taught us? As for learning does this mean we need to incorporate a more ‘pro-healthy’ environment in our designs or do we just need think about it and maybe use it? As for architecture, does this mean the task is upon us to design a more ‘pro-healthy’ building? Do the other professions who aren’t in building design and have less to do with it still need to be aware of it? Will the issue of setting up a building to address some of the issues in the PowerPoint be the future of my career? Will no one buy a house I designed unless it is more ‘pro-healthy’? Will this possible transformation be a more expensive way to life in comparison with today’s modern homes which are already costly? 9.19 Part One The author talks about history, modernism, the old and the new, the south, and how something can be demolished only to have something be rebuilt up right where it was from scratch into something modern just like the old structure was modern at its beginning. She does a series of pictures of the start of demolition, to the formation of the environment, to the foundation of the building, to the start of construction to the end of building; she puts the history of the project into visual form over a 7 year period. She also show’s pictures of other areas that this is happening at. Modernism, utopian architects, building up from scratch, and southern modernity are key concepts and terms. Part Two 1. Utopian architects. Utopia meaning; given to impractical or unrealistic schemes of such perfection, and architects dealing with building design ultimately meaning the design of futuristic/perfect buildings. I think she used the term in the sense that building something monstrous, and large, and remarkable out of nothing can seem un-human/impossible something perfect and not of this era. So these utopian architects are developing something that is just astonishing and unheard of which in comparison to this old factory they tore down can seem futuristic. 2. Southern Modernity. Modernity meaning the quality of being modern so the southern quality of being modern is the exact definition. I think what she meant is how the south is being modern with today’s world, exemplified through the development of Atlantic Station. The south, in comparison to the north, is a lot poorer and isn’t as ‘modern’ as the north so she’s trying to show us how they are becoming more modern over time and overcoming their problems that have been present since the civil war. 3. The concept that we are changing ‘nature’s cycles’, and each other with our industry is topic of the presentation. In definition what this concept means is that we are losing that relationship with nature we once had and with each other as industry dominates the world. The old and weak are discarded for the new and big buildings of the modern age. In a sense we are more focused on destroying our past and replacing it with fancy things and that blinds us. Part Three How does this presentation teach us anything? If anything it is sort of discouraging to want to aspire to new ideas, but at the same time she is saying she is astounded at the new ‘utopian’ world, it’s sort of confusing. Does this mean that as an architect I should continue to aspire to making new and unheard of designs, to look towards the future? When I become an architect should I focus on being more related to the environment in a way that my builing designs and it are more compatible with each other? Would it more cost effective to work with the environment or against it? 9.26 Part One The purpose of this presentation was to introduce us to Andrea Palladio, his work, and his view in architecture. The PowerPoint starts with his work, where they were built and when they were created by Palladio. It then goes into his advances and attributions to architecture that he made, his work in his books, and his designs for buildings and floor plans. Symmetry, proportion, three part design are terms used in this presentation to describe his work. Part Two 1. Palladian Architecture. Is a style of architecture that is formed around Palladio’s work in the 17th century. The rotunda and other aspects of Palladio’s work became the bases for this type of architecture. 2. La Rotunda. A aspect of Palladio’s work, was a symmetrical square cross building with a circular rontanda center and a dome on top. Something very popular in his work that was brought to the Americas later on. 3. Symmetry. Easy enough to define as; the correspondence in size, form, and arrangement of parts on opposite sides of a line or point. A simple term that defined most of Palladio’s work, and became part of the development of Palladian architecture. Part Three Is presenting us to Palladio’s work supposed to open our minds to different forms of architecture or just show us that we can develop our own type of style? For architecture are we forced to use his ideas or just consider them when doing our own stuff? For modern architecture, is it based solely on new minds that came up with something creative or is it based on the works of older architects like Palladio and a mix of others? As for classical architecture it became expensive to use a different type of architecture, is that true with Palladio’s work? Jack Nuttmann 08/28/07 1060 Assignment The wooden waterfall appears as it sounds a collection of pieces of wood shifting and turning much like a waterfall would turn and shift in real life. Although this installation is clearly man made it gives the COA a more environmental awareness feeling. The entire installation is constructed of many smaller sections of wood that are put together to appear as a long flowing piece, much like water. To hold it together, and pull some pieces close together the artist used bolts and screws. On the top and at the bottom of the installation the ‘water’ turns into a seating area with the cracks triple packed with the same wood for extra strength. Its shape is similar for the top and the bottom but give’s a wavy appearance in the middle. Even though there is no obstacle the waterfall shifts. The way the waterfall was designed was that many pieces of wood (lines) where placed within one inch or so of each other to keep the continuous image of a waterfall going but also giving the designer the ability to show shifts and changes as though it was the real thing. What amazed me the most was the change of the installation in the light then in the dark. During the day the installation to me is very dull and almost boring. You don’t really notice the individual pieces or even the flow of it, but at dark the building is only semi lit and pieces start to stand out, I noticed lights covered the areas where the waterfall was changing its form. The light at night also brought to focus the various parts of the installation. For instance the conjoining sections and the hard work behind the sculpture. One thing that the night time does do for me is that it covers up the black bars used to create carrying effects with the wood. Without these bars the waterfall looks a little bit more real. I think the issue that this structure is more appealing to the eye in a certain time of day motivates it to be seen then. I think the research questions being asked are does this structure appeal to people more for its shape and presence or just the fact that you can sit on it at the bottom of the wiped waterfall. The design process for this installation was probably done by floor. The structure is pretty much supported only by the top and the bottom, so working from the bottom and the top to the middle would keep the installing from falling over. I think that the image of a waterfall or and liquid is constant through the whole thing. I would name it Cascade. Cascade because I get a little bit of feminine perception from it, and the fact that the waterfall is cascading down a rocky surface. I think that ‘Cascade’ would be more of a secret holder then anything. A world of mystery behind those waves. Something that has a few meanings but many interpretations. I think the point of this project is to unlock those meanings and thus it is already doing its job by not making those meanings very clear. The second installation is a whole other area. It has a compact beginning followed by wild separation of different branches, then into total chaos, and then back together again in a more organized pattern. The installation, although appearing unorganized, when seen closer up show’s a higher level of organization. This installation appears to be made of a tough plastic that is screwed together and is twisted about only to come back together again. Its shape is hard to describe, it is made of many smaller pieces. This piece also stuck out at me in different parts of the day. In the early morning it is more similar to one color, and the whole installation seems cold and unwelcoming, but as the day goes by the sun shines through each piece and each piece stands out from the others. The installation is more inviting and overall seems more interesting. What motivates the installation is to be back together in a close knit formation, and for the sun to come out so it’s through image shows. I think the research question would be can an object switch from something it’s used to being into something else and still be able to come back to one’s self a changed man. I believe the bottom part, the tight knit part, was more of an easy task and then it’s extremely crazy curves turned into a long drawn out time. I get the same idea of an image of water breaking apart and then coming back together again. I would call the second installation Twist, because that is exactly what the plastic did. Its secret life would to be Bond, the transform in various things and be able to break apart who you are normally and become a completely new person. I think the wood is more of a secret, go with the flow type, while the plastic is a more spontaneous type. Link to this Page
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